THE HERO'S CREATION...
Disclaimer: I own no part of the Avengers (I wish I did). All rights belong to Marvel. I only own the character Tess Rogers / Tesseract / Amalia Schmidt and her plot and dialogue.
I'M SORRY FOR MAKING PEOPLE CRY. I LOVE YOU ALL, MAKING YOU SAD WASN'T INTENTIONAL!
They didn't have the heart to bury her, deep in the earth where she could deteriorate.
They couldn't cremate her either and let her blow away in the wind.
They just couldn't let her go as if she had never existed. Like she had never meant so much to them.
So, they put her in the cryogenic tube they had available. It was just as much for her preservation as it was for them all.
When they had returned to the Tower, Pietro had refused to let go of her hand. Steve and Wanda had to pry him away and their hearts had cracked further as they had listened to him sob into his sister's hair and beg for the universe to give Tess back to them all. He'd gone on for hours in English and then the language had changed, whispering begs in a language only Wanda could understand and she had only enough time to escape into a different room before she had collapsed to her knees and screamed.
They all cried, mourning her and absolutely hating, that until the day she died, she had been a weapon. And that her death alone had made her a hero.
Pietro visited every day and spent hours beside her tube. Thor and Tony left the team and the Avengers were recreated. Steve didn't tell the team what he had found—specifically about the small list tucked away within Tess' things that detailed her dreams of what the team could be, members and their strengths and weaknesses.
Pietro Maximoff—Quicksilver
Wanda Maximoff—Scarlet Witch
She'd even written a small booklet, outlining how she believed the team could grow in strength and numbers with the addition of James Rhodes as War Machine, Sam Wilson as Falcon and, in a different coloured ink, Vision.
They became the new Avengers lead by Steve Rogers—Captain America—and Natasha Romanoff as the ever lovely Black Widow.
No one ever mentioned the codenames Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Vision engraved into the doors of two spare rooms with blue ink—they didn't need to talk about the doors that now led to the rooms of the three newest members. They knew who placed them there, who named the Maximoff siblings as heroes, who accepted Vision as one of them before his loyalty was even confirmed.
The Avengers were all about working together and never losing hope. And sometimes, just sometimes, not losing hope lets miracles occur.
Captain America let out a breath, light eyes analysing the new team as they stood in front of the balcony he was on. Tess would have been so damn proud and she'd never let Steve forget that she had been right about the goodness in the Maximoff twins' hearts and Vision.
"Avengers, a—"
And eyes, dubbed Tesseract-blue, opened. A smile tugged gently at her lips, followed by a single, whispered word in the icy confines of the cryogenic tube.
"Assemble…"
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UNEDITED
TESS IS NOT DEAD. I REPEAT, TESS IS NOT DEAD!
Unfortunately, I am NOT going to be writing a sequel, as I've, sadly, lost a bit of interest in the story. I love Tess Rogers as a character but I kind of feel like I've lost what made her unique. I'm also a bit stressed that if I write a sequel, Tess is going to become a realMary Sue and I don't want that.
So, as of now, Volatile is complete and Tess and Pietro's story is over. But imagine the Happily Ever After they can have that won't be written because Tess is still alive.
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL OF YOU WHO SUPPORTED THIS STORY, I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH. THIS IS THE VERY LAST CHAPTER SO I WOULD LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT IF EVERYONE READING THIS LEFT A REVIEW AND JUST TOLD ME WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF THE BOOK AS A WHOLE AND HOW YOU LIKED THE EDITED VERSION. IT WOULD MEAN SO MUCH TO ME AND I'M SAYING THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!
~ Raven